Disclaimer: Still not mine.
Booth pulled his cell phone out and called the lab. Hodgins answered.
"Booth, you find her?"
Booth's voice was filled with anger, but when he spoke Hodgins knew the anger wasn't directed at him, "He took her. That bastard took her."
"We might know where he has them. There was an apartment building Sarah lived in. There's an abandoned warehouse practically in her backyard."
Booth rushed to his car, his mind in overdrive, "Is it the apartment complex just outside of D.C.?"
"Yeah, how did you know?"
"We went there the morning after we first went to Sarah's place. How did you guys come up with that?" Booth asked as he began driving to the apartment.
"We realized that none of the murders happened inside any of the apartment buildings and that's where the warehouses came in. All the warehouses that the victims were murdered in were less than a mile away from the apartment complex they lived in."
"You couldn't have gotten that a couple hours ago?" Booth asked angrily.
"Dude, we're working as hard and as fast as possible. You're going to be able to get this bastard, Booth. You will be able to save them," Hodgins tried to tell him.
"No, I won't," his eyes closed briefly. "Bones might be dead already."
"You said might, Booth. She could still be alive. Go save her like you always do."
Sarah rushed the rest of the way through the ropes. They listened frightfully as they heard the footsteps from above. Sarah tried to work on Angela's handcuffs but she froze again when the door to the downstairs. Angela stopped her.
"Sarah, leave me here and go get help. I can try to hold off Tristan for as long as possible. We can't let him get away these murders."
"Angela, if he kills you…" Sarah sighed. "I have to get you out of here."
Footsteps grew closer, and now they could tell the person was dragging something.
"Go!" Angela whispered frantically.
She was torn but the look on Angela's face and the footsteps made her hurry off with a last look. She tried to navigate her way throughout the maze of boxes without running into Tristan. Sarah finally reached the door and was about to go through when she heard a yell quickly followed by a scream. She gasped and quickly ran back to Angela as fast as she possibly could.
Back-up would be arriving soon, but that didn't stop Booth from silently making his way through the warehouse. He had gotten a glimpse of Tristan dragging his partner into the building but he couldn't tell if she was still alive or not. Luckily for Booth, there had been a slight layer of dirt covering the ground and he could see where he dragged Brennan. He heard a scream when he made it downstairs that was followed by a gasp that seemed close by. Who was it that gasped?
His answer was immediately answered as he saw a bruised and bloody Sarah running through the rows towards the back of the building. Booth followed. She turned a corner and he heard her trip over something that was succeeded by an angry growl. He saw her run as hard as she can to the end of the row where he saw Tristan with a knife to Angela's neck.
Sarah managed to tackle him, knocking the knife out of his reach. She started throwing punches at him but was quickly overpowered as Tristan's shock wore off. Soon she was underneath him being strangled. Booth leapt into action and knocked him out and pushed him off of Sarah as he had collapsed on her. Sarah laid there, gasping for air.
Angela was staring at the scene in complete shock. She had screamed when she saw him dragging Brennan and was terrified. If he could hurt Brennan like that, she didn't know how long she could have held him off. Within a second that knife was at her throat and he was threatening her to tell him where Sarah went or she would die. When at first Sarah had tackled him she was relieved but shocked. Sarah didn't leave to try to save her. Why? Then Booth appeared and she was confused. No way had she gotten Booth's help in less than a minute unless he was already here. By Sarah's shocked and relieved expression, she had no clue Booth had been here either.
Sarah managed to get up and she made her way over to Angela to get her free while Booth went and checked Brennan for a pulse. When Angela was free, both hurried over to Brennan's side and Sarah asked, "She have a pulse?"
"It's faint, but there," Booth replied. "Can you two walk?"
They nodded and Angela asked tentatively, "Think she'll be ok?"
"God, I hope so." Effortlessly, he picked Brennan up and thankfully, back-up arrived and they took Tristan. Paramedics helped them return to the outside and into the ambulances.
After some surgery and stitches, Doctors said that Angela and Sarah would be fine, as long as infection didn't set in. Brennan on the other hand needed a blood transfusion, had a concussion, and was in a coma. Like with Sarah's case weeks ago, the doctors didn't know when she would wake up, though they were confident that when she did wake up, she would most likely be ok.
The squints arrived at the hospital just shortly before Booth. All of them waited the several hours before they knew Sarah and Angela would be fine and then even longer for Brennan. Doctors placed Sarah and Angela in the same room when the rest of the squints and Booth were with them.
While they were waiting for the doctors to let them visit Brennan, they talked.
"Hey, Booth, didn't I say this morning that you'd save them," Hodgins said with a smile.
"Yeah, and you're lucky we're in a hospital right now."
Zach asked, "Why? I'd prefer no one be in the hospital."
"Because, I'd shoot Hodgins."
"I'd prefer you don't shoot the team, Booth," Cam said and laughed alongside the rest of them
"So Booth," Hodgins started. "I noticed Angela seemed pretty happy about something ever since Goodman came back, but I don't think it's just because he came back. What's been going on with you and Dr. Brennan?"
.He crossed his arms and denied, "We're just partners, nothing more."
"I doubt that, Agent Booth," Goodman laughed. To Hodgins he said, "Sarah told us they were seeing each other."
Booth stared in shock, "When did she find out?"
"I don't now," Cam stated, "but this isn't a surprise to me."
"How?"
She smirked, "I saw the two of you kissing in Dr, Brennan's office."
"Before Christmas?"
"No, just last week." She thought for a second. "Wait a second; this has been going on since Christmas? How could you keep it a secret for that long?"
"I… we… Caroline made us do it."
"Dude," Hodgins interrupted, "don't worry about it. We're all totally happy with it. We've seriously been waiting for it since you two met."
Booth rolled his eyes and then he sighed, "God, if she doesn't wake up, I don't know what I'll do."
"Hey man, I was right that you would save them, so I'll tell you this. She will wake up. Trust me."
"Don't worry Booth," Cam said. "Dr. Brennan is too strong let something like this keep her down for long. Before you know it, she'll be up and running around again."
He hoped Cam was right. Until then, it was just a waiting game. When it came to Bones, however, having to wait was not something Booth wanted to do. He prayed she would wake up soon.
